The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-06
Promising to Lead an Army of Them in the
Work of Rebuilding Ruined HOmes-The
Speech Regarded as Inopportune.
Gladstone Promises to Yield Point in
the Interest of Libe Harmony.
The Ex-Premier Announces His Willingness
to Participate in a Conference with the
Unionist Leader, Lord Harrington.
Speech which Is Certain tn DO the Cause
of Ireland Great Injury.

Speech which Is Certain to DO the Cause
of Ireland Great Injury.
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
LONDON. June 5.-Michael Davitt addressed
another large crowd in the Bodyke district to-
day. repeating his exhortation TO the people to
resist eviction He advised them to resume
possession of their dwellings after being evicted.
aad in where the houses had been burned
by the agents, it was the duty of the men of
Bcdyke to rebuild them and furnish shelter for
their families. He said that he would
next Sunday gather an assemblage of $4,000 or
40. 900 men and lead them while they restored
every house which had beer demolished. He ad-
vocated a concerted movement for tine care OF
the evicted families. and urged that funds be
raised to extend the "Plan of Campaign" He
predicted that within the next month million
pounds would be collected for the fund through
out the civilized world. owing to the barbarsm
practiced at Bodyke.
Mr. Davitt accused himself of having weak
ened the defense of the men of Ireland of their
rights and their hearths bv urging them TO alb
stain from committing acts of violence aud to
refrain from breaking the law, and said he was
heartily ashamed of himself for having
given such advice. He had found that he
was mistaken in supposing that the
submission of the people of Ire
land to gross injustice would win for
them the sympathies of Great Britain, and
henceforth no word of censure would ever fall
from his lips against Irishmen who defend their
homes at the risk of life. "If the advice OF
John Mitchell should be taken" he said, ''every
Irish homes tead would have been made a fortress
to defend tho rights of it's occupants, and you
sooner would have made greater progress and
won greater privileges than by following the
tame advice of submission"
What Is Thought of the Speech In London.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
LONDON June 5-Michael Davitt's remarka-
BILE declaration at Bodyke was ID ost inopportune,
not only for the Parnellites but for himself. He
confessed himself in error in ever having eoun-
seled the people of Ireland to submit to evic-
tions and urged upon them their
duty. forcible resistance to any and every
eviction attempted. His speech cannot be d-
vested of its Importance a Nationalist mani
festo, and at the same time it announces his re-
volt against the restraint of Mr.. Parnels parlia
mentary policy. and the disappearance of the
strongest, if not the only, obstacle
that stood IN the way OF recurrence
of another p5riod of outrage in Ireland.
These utterances of man dear to the hearts Of
every Irishman on everyones lips and are
stirring the blood of Ireland as nothing else
could MIR. Davitt's whole speech comedies with
the sentiments Of the people, who. under the cir
cumstaD ces of increasing evictious and impending
coercion, with its attendant indignites and
cruelties, are surcharged with rage and ripe for
an outbreak, and the speakers defiant challenge
to the government to arrest him for sedition
will. if permitted to pass unnoticed intensity
his speech aud greatly intensity the danger of
revolt